Sbe Marbler 



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Floral Park where horses are not very abundant but Chipping Sparrows are 

 excessively so, and all seem to find an immense quantity of their favorite 

 lining material. I have observed nests where the bulk of the lining was 

 black horse hair but the inside white, showing that the bird deliberately 

 selected the white hairs for the inside. In New England the Chippino- 

 Sparrow is generally known as the Hair-bird. The eggs are four or five in 

 number, small, of a most exquisite shade of blue more or less spotted with 

 black near or about the largest end. There is wide variation in the number 

 and size of these spots, some examples being almost spotless. 



YOUNG CHIPPING SPARROW 



The Grasshopper Sparrow 



(Coturniculus savannarum passerinus) 



THE Grasshopper Sparrow is an extremely rare bird within the city limits, 

 or, in fact, anywhere near New York City. Previous to 1904 I had 

 seen it only once at Floral Park during the breeding season. L-ast year a 

 nest with two eggs was found in a field at Belmont Park near where the 

 city line divides the Borough of Queens from Nassau County. I believe 

 that two or three pairs were nesting in this locality, as the chirring song, 



